Structures Question(s)??

[mpSmooth]

Are the .Net primitive data types classes or structures?? Also, is a structure considered an object? Can you derive another structure from another structures? Sorry for so many questions, but my book is unclear about this topic.

[Shawn N]

I don't have an answer but I found this on MSDN.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/replaceapicalls.asp

[Cander]

the data types are class objects...everything in .NET is treated as such.

i believe yes you should be able to derive a struct from a struct.

[Bananafish]

The type hierarchy for .net starts off with "object" at the top, under which is


Object
String (note, not a primitive type)
Array
ValueType
PrimitiveTypes
Enum
Structure
Exception
Delegate
Multicast Delegate
Class

[gijsj]

Primitive datatypes are value types (like structs) not reference types (like classes).

And a struct can't be derived from another struct !